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The Development of Assessment Policy in Ireland: A Story of Junior Cycle Reform
- Source :
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Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice . 2018 25(3):310-326. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The more recent discussion in Ireland around post-primary teachers being responsible for assessing their own students' work continues. The new junior cycle reform (covering the first three years of post-primary education) is concerned with making fundamental changes in approaches to learning, teaching, curriculum and assessment, with school-based assessment as an important element of the reform. This paper sets out to map assessment policy in a changing and contested assessment environment in the Republic of Ireland. The paper tells the story of assessment in junior cycle from the first progress report in 1999 on a review of the curriculum that had been introduced for students in the junior cycle of post-primary schools in 1989 to the 2015 "Framework for Junior Cycle". We document the intention to move away from assessment as solely a means of making summative judgements towards assessment as a support of learning and teaching.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0969-594X
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1185615
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2018.1441125